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Sep 26, 2017
Oct 03, 2017
Oct 10, 2017
RYLA & Interact in the Upcoming Year
Oct 17, 2017
Classification Talk
Oct 24, 2017
World Polio Day - Polio Plus Update
Oct 31, 2017
Rotary House Project 2017-2018
Nov 07, 2017
DWC Update
Nov 21, 2017
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Upcoming Events
Oct 2017 Board Meeting
WRVC Board Room
Oct 03, 2017
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
 
Nov 2017 Board Meeting
WRVC Board Room
Nov 07, 2017
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
 
Dec 2017 Board Meeting
WRVC Board Room
Dec 05, 2017
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
 
Tips for Charity Luncheon
Westbrook-Warren Church
Dec 08, 2017
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
 
Christmas Party 2017
Home of Judith & Ed Reidman
Dec 12, 2017
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
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  Third, Will it build goodwill & better friendships?   
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   * Promoting Peace
   * Supporting Education
   * Growing Local Economies
   * Fighting Disease
   * Providing Clean Water 
   * Saving Mothers & Children
 
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10/3 10:30AM at WRVC
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Upcoming Opportunities
September is Rotary's Basic Education & Literacy Month - We encourage members to bring in new or gently used children's books to any meeting this month. Books will be used in our book boxes.  Perhaps you have friends, colleagues or relatives who are doing fall cleaning, or have recently grown children. The most popular books are toddlers through age 10.
 
Duffle Bags for Guatemala - Head into your attic or dig through that box in the basement! Scott Linscott is looking to collect 18 military duffle bags. Most will be filled with school supplies for school kids in Guatemala. Others will be filled with other needed supplies. This is for the FBC trip next spring to Oratorio Childcare Center in the eastern region of Guatemala. If you can help, please contact Scott.
 
The Locker Project at WHS - Wednesday September 20, 12:30-2PM. Meet rear of Westbrook High School, distribution takes place in the cafeteria. Fresh food and vegetables, along with baked goods are available for any student to take home.  Food provided by Hannaford, Shaws and other local markets. Volunteers needed to pick over and display produce on tables, interact with students, encourage them to take items. Most jobs require no heavy lifting. If you can help, please contact Christine Johnson. 
 
Hurricane Harvey Relief & Recovery - The Rotary Foundation has established a single fund to support Rotarians in their relief efforts for the devastation left by Hurricane Harvey in Houston and other parts of the Gulf Coast -  the Gulf Coast Disaster Relief Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Information about contributing to the Gulf Coast DAF is available on the Rotary website.  To donate: Make check payable to The Rotary Foundation DAF and send to Rotary DAF, c/o NRS, 12 Gill Street, Suite 2600, Woburn, MA, 01801, write "Gulf Coast Disaster Relief Fund #608” on the memo line. Or you can make a credit card donation at: Rotary DAF Contribution.  Be sure to note the fund name and number on the form.
 
Donate to our Club's Charity through Amazon Smile – Ongoing - If you order items from Amazon.com, even if not very often, you can help Westbrook Gorham Rotary Club Charities.  Go to http://smile.amazon.com/. Search for our Charity and select it. You may need to login to your Amazon account before being able to finalize your selection.   Then, when you shop Amazon.com (always starting from http://smile.amazon.com/) a portion of every purchase will be donated to our charity.
CLYNK for Literacy – Ongoing - Keep those cans and bottles coming! Drop off your filled CLYNK bag at any Hannaford (drop off locations can be found at: https://www.clynk.com/locations/maine/ . Thanks to those who have contributed bottles so far to help purchase books that we donate for each speaker.  If you need more CLYNK bags, they are available at each meeting. 
Save These Dates
Crutches 4 Africa Container Load - Saturday November 8. Watch for details in the District Newsletter.  Warehouse on Gooch St in Biddeford. This will be the seventh 40 foot container of crutches, walkers, wheelchairs and other mobility devices from District 7780.  Many hands will be needed and there will opportunities for people of various physical abilities.
 
Tips for Charity Luncheon at the Festival of Trees - Friday December 8. Rotary will sponsor a table again this year.  Christine Johnson will be your hostess/waitress. At Westbrook Warren Church. Two seatings with 8 tickets available for each time.  11:30 AM or 12:30PM. To reserve your seats, contact Christine.
CLYNK for Literacy
The next quarterly pay-out from CLYLNK will happen soon.  If you have full or nearly full CLYNK bags, please consider returning them to your local Hannaford before the end of September.   Bottles and cans returned by the end of September will be included in the next check.
 
If you need a new CLYNK bag, you can pick them up at any meeting. Thank you for your support as we use these funds top purchase children's books for our speakers to sign.  Both the Walker Library and Baxter Library are grateful for our support.
Golf Classic - THIS week!!
The 23rd Annual Rotary Golf Classic is THIS WEEK - Tuesday September 19, 2017. All members are encouraged to come and help with set up in the morning and/or clean up at the end of the day. There is always need for extra hands from about 10-Noon and then from about 4-6PM. 
 
The goal of 40 hole sponsors has been exceeded with a final total of 43 sponsors. Thanks to all members who worked to bring in those sponsors. We didn't quite meet our goal of 20 teams, but expect to see about 15 teams take to the course on Tuesday.
 
 
DON'T FORGET: We can still use raffle prizes. $20-$25 gift cards to local establishments, golf related items, or other items with value of $10 to $50 (or more!) are appreciated.  Please contact Ethan Johnson ejohnson@chalmersinsurancegroup.com or Pat Plummer pplummer62203@aol.com then bring those items to the tournament before noon.  The raffle drawing is done once the golfers tee off so the list is ready as they finish play.
 
Hope to see you all on Tuesday!
Polio Plus Thank You
The Polio Plus cans were emptied after our last meeting.  We are pleased to report that our members generously donated $162 during the first quarter of the 2017-2018 Rotary year.  This amount has been forwarded to the Rotary Foundation and will be double matched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
 
Thank you for your continued commitment to finally eradicating this preventable disease.
District Governor Visit
District Governor David Underhill, his wife Linda and Assistant Governor Tony Wagner were our guest on September 12, 2017.  Dave noted that year-to-date there have been only 10 cases of polio in the world compared to 350,000 annually in the 1980s. With the continued support of Rotary and its partners, it will be reduced to zero. If we can do this with polio, Rotary can do this with substance misuse disorder too.  
 
In District 7780, we have formed a Recovery Initiative led by Bob MacKenzie of Kennebunk Rotary Club to combat the opioid crisis and substance misuse in our local communities. The Recovery Initiative will help clubs share the work they are already doing with a goal of expanding upon it.
 
Dave pointed to Rotary’s Six Areas of Focus, displayed as a Pyramid of Peace.  The Recovery Initiative hits on all six areas.  Disease prevention since substance misuse is a disease. Clean safe water by reducing the amount and type of substances discarded or flushed. Maternal and Child health as mothers are “clean” during pregnancy and can better care of their children. Literacy and Economic Development with parents and their children able to learn and contribute to their own support and to society.  Finally, Peace. When the building block areas of focus are addressed, individuals and society see less crime and better quality of life.
 
 
Dave also touched upon growing Rotary. He noted that “the magic of Rotary” is in each club – in our volunteer time, as well as in the money we raise and donate within our communities. He encouraged us to identify good people and ask them to attend a meeting or work on a service project with us. We grow Rotary “one great person at a time”.
 
 
 
 
As a thank you for speaking to us, President Bill presented Dave with a golf putter in hopes of improving his short game (ha!). In addition, in lieu of Happy Dollars, members donated to Polio Plus via our table-top canisters. Finally, Dave signed a children's book for the Baxter Library.
 
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New/Advancing Paul Harris Fellows Honored

During the District Governor's visit, Dave was pleased to present Paul Harris Fellows to six new or advancing members.

Congratulations and thank you to new Paul Harris Fellows Michael Foley, Deb Kennedy Shangraw, and William Henry Chadwick. Also thanks to advancing PHFs Christine Born Johnson, Woody Beach, Cliff Plummer, and Steve Rand (who will be honored September 26).

Your generosity to the Rotary Foundation is much appreciated. Your donations help advance the work of all Rotarians as we "do good in the world". 

   

L: DG Dave Underhill, Mike Foley

C: AG Tony Wagner, Dave, and Bill Chadwick

R: Deb Shangraw

Photo credit: Scott Linscott of Linscott Photo

Win a trip to World Polio Day in Seattle!
 
There is still time to enter the drawing!!!  World Polio Day will be held in Seattle this year in recognition of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s support of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.  A generous District 7780 Rotarian has donated airfare and a hotel room for one of us to travel to Seattle for World Polio Day on October 24. This is a chance to be in the audience and see “up close and personal” what major players in this field have to say.
 
Make a donation to Polio Plus of at least $25 between July 1st and September 30, 2017 to enter the drawing. Each individual donor, regardless of the amount given, will be eligible for the drawing and the lucky winner will be heading west in October. If you make your donation on-line, it can be made any time right up to September 30. If you choose to do it by check, mail it by September 22 to be sure it will get to Evanston in time to be processed.  Every donation is eligible for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s 2:1 match, so your contribution is tripled.
 
What’s Included: Round trip airfare from Portland or Boston to Seattle, hotel room for two nights in Seattle. You are responsible for meals and other incidentals.
 
Speaker Assignment List
 
We have been receiving many requests to provide programs recently so have not assigned members to specific weeks as we have done in the past.  If you have an idea for a program, please contact Christine Johnson.  We are currently seeking programs for November and beyond. We have FOUR speaker openings through the first of the year. 
 
Here is the list of upcoming dates with speakers and their sponsors:
 
* 9/19 - Golf Tournament - No Meeting
* 9/26 - Marty Helman - District Foundation Chair - Steve Rand
* 10/3 - Club Assembly
* 10/10 - WHS Interact and RYLA with Bruce Dyer - Dave Rolfe
* 10/17 - Scott Linscott - Classification Talk
* 10/24 - Lawrence Furbish - World Polio Day
* 10/31 - Owens McCullough - New Rotary House Update
* 11/7   - Abigail Cioffi - Downtown Westbrook Coalition - Phil Spiller
11/14 - Your Speaker Here!!
* 11/21 - In-Meeting Service Project - Details Soon!!
* 11/28 - Your Speaker Here!!
* 12/5 -   Club Assembly
* 12/12 - No Meeting - Christmas Party at the Reidman's
* 12/19 - Your Speaker Here!!
* 12/26 - No meeting - Christmas Break
*  1/2   - Your Speaker Here!!
 
 
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Missed a Meeting?   Make up online at Rotary E-Club One
 
Or at one of these other local clubs in our area:
 
Falmouth - Mondays 4:30PM
American Legion Post  65 Depot Rd Falmouth
 
Scarborough - Tuesdays 5:45PM
Cabela's 100 Cabela's Blvd Scarborough
 
South Portland-Cape Elizabeth - Wednesdays 6:15PM
Purpoodock Club 300 Spurwink Rd Cape Elizabeth
Portland Sunrise - Thursdays 7:15AM
Cumberland Club 116 High St Portland
 
Sebago Lake Rotary Club - Thursdays 12:15PM 
Pat's Pizza 844 Roosevelt Trail, Windham, ME 04062
 
Portland - Fridays 12:15PM at Holiday Inn by the Bay or Clarion
check website for current week's venue
 
OR you can always claim a make up by attending Rotary-sponsored events of our club or other clubs like fundraisers, selling Christmas Trees, by volunteering at our Golf Tournament or our Road Race, or by attending District events or training. Just let our Secretary Mike Foley know when you have participated in any of these activities at mfoley@me.com
 
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